Symposium: "Analysis of causal effects in experimental and quasi-experimental designs"

From July 7 to 9, 2006 was held a conference at the "Altes Schloss Dornburg" near Jena.

Aim of the symposium were

to present and discuss the state of the art in design and analysis of experiments and quasi-experiments from the perspectives of different research traditions and disciplines,

to bring together the proponents of two research traditions, which deal with the design and analysis of experiments and quasi-experiments,

to bring together different disciplines dealing with the analysis of causal effects.

Organisational frame

There were 7 focus presentations, which were discussed and commented by two discussants. These was followed by an open discussion with all participants. Furthermore, there were some poster sessions, in which other participants have presented their work on the analysis of causal effects.